S 1120
Writ of King Edward declaring that the estate of Lessness, Kent, which Ætsere owned and bequeathed to Westminster Abbey for the monks' food is now to belong to the abbey. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XI (s. xii; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 9)
2. BL Add. 4558, 138r (s. xviii)
3. BL Cotton Faust. A. iii, 105v-106r (s. xiii)
4. London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 647r (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 298 (no. 14); Birch 1874, pp. 142-3 ex MS 1; Neufeldt 1907, no. 8 ex MS 1; ; Harmer, Writs, no. 76 (p. 343) ex MS 1, with translation.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp, 299-301, 495-6, probably a fabrication, very imperfect seal of reddish-white wax, attached upside-down sur simple queue, wrapping-tie; Bishop and Chaplais, p. xxii n., forgery; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; BA Facs., p. 11.
Eadward kyng gret Ædsi arcebiscop 7 Godwine biscop on Rouancestre 7 Leofwine eorll on Kent 7 Esgar stallere 7 Rodbert Wimarche sunu stallere 7 ealle mine þeignas on Kent frendlice. Ic cyðe eow þæt ic wille þæt þæt cotlif Leosne þe Ætsere ahte 7 becwæð Criste 7 Sancte Petre into Westmynstre ligge nu ðider inn to ðæra muneca fodan mid eallum ðæra ðingum þe þær to hyreð on wude 7 on felde, on mæde 7 on wætere 7 on ealle oðre þingum scotfreo 7 gafolfreo on scire 7 on hundrede swa ful 7 swa forð swa he hit Sancte Petre becwæð 7 ic ðes fullice geuðe. 7 ic nelle nateshwon geðafian þæt þær ænig mann ænigne onstyng habbe on ænigum þingum oððe on ænigum timan buton se abbot 7 ða gebroðra to ðes mynstres nytwurðlicre þearfe. 7 ic ann þæt Sancte Peter habbe ofer ðam saca 7 socna toll 7 team infangeneþeof 7 ealle oðre gerihte þe to me belimpað. God eow gehealde 7 Sancte Petres holde.